TEN men accused of violent disorder after right-wing organisations demonstrated in Rotherham town centre have gone on trial.

Mr Paul O’Shea, prosecuting, opened the case at Sheffield Crown Court this morning.

He said that on September 5 last year there was a march organised by right-wing group Britain First and other similar outfits including Yorkshire’s Finest in the wake of the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal.

A GROUP of right-wing protesters who were shouting “vile racist abuse” after a demonstration in Rotherham “got rather more than they bargained for” when violence broke out in the centre of the town, a court has heard.

A jury was shown CCTV footage of violent scenes in the South Yorkshire town when a group associated with the far-right Britain First group clashed with a group of mainly Asian men.

The footage showed fighting in the street between the two groups before police arrived in numbers to part them.

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Two men who were charged in connection with the same incident — Haseeb Alam (19), of Selwyn Street, Eastwood, and Mahroof Sultan (37), of Grosvenor Road, Eastwood — have both admitted violent disorder and will be sentenced at the end of the trial.